Posted on 05/11/2008 10:55:57 AM PDT by Red Steel
CHICAGO (CBS) ― Activists fear gay African-Americans are being targeted for murder. Two openly gay men were killed recently on the South Side, as CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
African-American gay and lesbian groups are talking about the murders of two openly gay Black men in the past month.
On November 17, 24-year-old Larry Bland was shot to death in his Englewood home. Bland, a security guard at Northwestern Hospital was shot more than once after struggling with a man who had entered the house through an unlocked basement door.
Then on December 23, 47-year-old Donald Young, the choir director at Trinity United Church of Christ, was shot multiple times in his South Side apartment. His roommate found his body.
"We're calling on the police department to let the community know what's going on," said Marc Loveless of the Coalition for Justice and Respect. "Are we under attack? Is this a serial killer?"
Chicago Police Department Acting Sept. Dana Starks said, "I understand the concerns of any group, any community when it comes to homicide. As of right now, I cannot say whether there is a connection."
The media services director of the church where Donald Young taught and led the choir, said, "Young did live an openly gay lifestyle; that was his choice."
But she went on to call the Loveless statement, "self-serving." She also said the police are doing everything they can.
The brother of victim Larry Bland says if the murder was a hate crime, he would not be surprised.
"Englewood? Come on. That's why a lot of gay guys won't come out, because they fear for something like this to happen," said Bland's brother, Lynn.
Starks says that "at this time" there is no evidence the murders were hate crimes. But he told CBS 2, the investigations are still underway.
“says if the murder was a hate crime, he would not be surprised.”
Anybody ever heard of a “love crime”?
bwahahahahahahaha! African-American-Gay-Nation-of-Islam-Black-Panther-Man-Boy-Lovers UNITE! (not literally).
Big mark
Larry Sinclair (so he says) had been talking with Donald Young.
Sure, crime committed in a fit of jealous rage.
In fact, that’s most likely the main competing theory the police will look at.
Oh man, will we need to start a “Obamao Associates who have died” list ala the Clinton Dead Pool from the 90’s?
An aside...When will people learn that they have to EARN respect?
Since when is an interrupted attempted burglary a hate crime???
Maybe the flamboyant hand signals were thought to be a new gang sign.....Oh snap.,
This stuff drives me to cuss and yell because all human beings are equal when it comes to murder! My brother was murdered and the guy who killed him was full of hate but it was not a hate crime because he was straight! So what our country has done is make one persons’ death more important because he has sex different than other people! Damn that’s just immoral!
But not posted.
And not a single murder of a gay black man since. More breathless, unfounded speculation presented as fact by a group that wants to score political points. Par for the course for Liberals.
Dead men tell no tales — and is BHO really is the Jim McGreevy type he seems to be....
So the insinuation here is that Obama is having his gay friends bumped off?
Wow...that does make some sort of sense as a theory anyway, granted mere speculation, but some nice train of thought stuff.
Yup. Do an Internet search on ‘Donald Young’ but do not use the Google News search category since they are censoring his name, and follow the link posted on #15 of this thread.
I was checking out of the super market yesterday and I saw one of the trashy rags had an Obama article on the front page and it was about homosexual murder. I think it was the Globe. Not sure which one.
Two murders. That’s a trend?
In West Phoenix, over a few years, something like 35 murdered Mexican drug dealers have been found in a relatively small area of desert. I guess it means we have a genocide in progress.
Fortunately, the police and local media have gone to great lengths to both under report and ignore the “coincidence”.
That’s fine....just thought we should make it clear it was from awhile ago...
< /sarcasm>
Maybe Farrakhan did it, in which it’s merely a valid cultural expression.
Someones down low friends being targeted?
And another plausible reason on why Hillary is staying in presidential race.
So what Lynn is saying is that homosexuals stay in the closet so they don't get murdered? Don't know if that will work. I'll wager no matter how careful they are, they still get it in the end.
So if the gays are banding together to face this problem. Could it be said they are making a...Fruit stand?
Yes, but only his black gay friends. He needs his white gay friends like Larry Sinclair to prove he is not racist.
Prayers sent for you and all of your brother’s loved ones.
Whatever happened to Larry Sinclair’s allegations about Barak Obama? Did he have no credibility or what? That story died like last year’s bird nest.
Anyone got an answer for me?
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Loveless. What a name for a "gay activist".
Sinclair is out there in the blogger world and tabloid press, but you probably won’t see this stuff in the main stream press unless evidence emerges that ties Obama.
http://larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/is-obama-caught-up-in-gay-murder-scandal/
ping
LOL ...If this had happened in a small town , say like Keene , New Hampshire I could understand the the angst ...but in Chicago , one of the murder capitals of the USA ?
This is nothing compared to the murders in Chicago’s South Side over the past few weeks. Can’t all be gay/lesbian. It’s just a tough part of town.
What could makes the murder of Mr. Donald Young interesting is that Larry Sinclair claims he was in contact with Young, who Sinclair said had an intimate relationship with Obama, and has proof through a phone conversation. Sinclair put his accusation in writing where he sent an affidavit by fax to the Chicago police.
Activists fear gay African-Americans are being targeted for murder. Two openly gay men were killed recently on the South Side, as CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
Two words: Pink Pistols.
Oh, excuse me. This is Chicago, where the Daley Devilcrat political machine works hard to keep that from being an option for anyone.
Obumpa bam
..Larry Sinclair may be right—BUMP!
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